Identifier: midsummernightsd01shak (find matches)
Title: A midsummer-night's dream
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Fredericks, Alfred, illus
Subjects: Courtship
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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h the soul of love:And ere 1 take this charm off from her sight,(As I can take it with another herb)Ill make her render up her pHut who i omes here ? I am invisible ;And i will Over-hear their conference. I1 him. Dm: I love th-1 not, therefore pursue me not.Where is Lysander, and fair Hermia?The one Ill slay, the other slayeth mc.Thou toldst me they wen- stoln into this wood;And here am I, and wood within this wood, annot meet my I lermia.Hence I get thee gone, and follow me no more. //</. You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;Hut yet you draw not iron, for my heartIs tm leave you your power to draw, And 1 shall have no power to follow you. A in. Do I entice you ? Do 1 speak you fair?r, rather, do I not in plainest truthTel) you, I do nol nor I (annot love you ? //,/. And even for that do 1 love you the more.I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: >ur spaniel, spurn me, strike me,in , only give me l< ave, 32 MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS DRl \M
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Ibi/iP: nworthy as I am, to follow you. j. What worser place can I beg in your love,I ( \nd yet a place of high respect with me,) lN// hau to be used as you use your dog?Dent. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; MIDSUMMER .WIGHTS DREAM. 33 1 i I .mi sick wlii n I do 1( iok on I //,/ And 1 .mi sick when I lk m>t on you. Dem. \ u do impeach your modesty too much,! the and i ommit you Inii the hands ol one that loves you not;I o trust the opportunity of night,And the ill coun ert place, With the rich worth of your virginity. //,■/. Your virtue is my privilege for thath i- not night when I do see your face,Therefore I think I am nol in the night;Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company.For you, in m\ i all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone,When .ill the world i-- here to look on me ? /. Ill run from thee and hide me in the brakes,And leave thee to the mercy of wild be //(/. The wildest hath not such a heart as you.Run when you will, the story shal

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